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TIL the word “lurker” grew to include internet behavior when dial-up bulletin board systems became popular. Those using the phone line and consuming resources (“reading”) were expected to contribute; since lurkers tied up phone lines without contributing anything, they were criticized and banned.

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eey4 TIL that Switzerland has enough fallout shelters for 114% of its population
5Y1MD TIL that before 1600 people tended not to eat breakfast.
Z891Y TIL After reading how Rosa Parks was robbed and assaulted in her Detroit home at the age of 81, Little Caesars founder Mike Ilitch quietly paid her rent for over a decade until she passed.
1aBJO TIL about the Taylor Oil Spill, a spill that occurred in the Gulf of Mexico in 2004 and is STILL ongoing today in 2019 with an estimated 300-700 barrels of oil per day spilling into the ocean. There is enough oil reserve for this to continue for 100 years if not contained
XEv9r TIL that Vincent Gallo and Roger Ebert feuded over Ebert's criticism of Gallo's film "The Brown Bunny." Gallo said he hexed Ebert's colon to give him cancer, to which Ebert replied watching his own colonoscopy was more fun than watching Gallo's film.